Matthew 5:45

Good News Translation

so that you may become the children of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.

Cross References

Job 25:3

Can anyone count the angels who serve him? Is there any place where God's light does not shine?

Psalm 145:9

He is good to everyone and has compassion on all he made.

Jeremiah 5:24

You never thought to honor me, even though I send the autumn rains and the spring rains and give you the harvest season each year.

Matthew 5:9

“Happy are those who work for peace; God will call them his children!

Luke 6:35

No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.

John 13:35

If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

Acts 14:17

But he has always given evidence of his existence by the good things he does: he gives you rain from heaven and crops at the right times; he gives you food and fills your hearts with happiness.”

Ephesians 5:1

Since you are God's dear children, you must try to be like him.

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky,

1 John 3:9

Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God's very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.